Improvement in bags for enveloping beef-quarters



\ E.v s. HAL'STED. BAGS FOR ENVELOPING BEEF QUARTERS, &c.

.-P-atente'd Feb. 6, 1877.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QEEIGE..

EZEKIEL S. HALSTED, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT INBAGS FOR ENVELOPING BEEF-QUARTERS, &c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 187,008, dated February6, 1877 application filed January 9, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EzE-KIEL S. HALsTED, of the city of Brooklyn, in thecounty of Kings and State of New York, have invented an Improvement inBags for Enveloping Beet'- Quarters during Refrigeration andTransportation, of which the following is a specification:

This invention relates to that class of sacks or bags composed ofhurlaps, or equivalent material, and designed for holding heef-quarterswhen the same are heing transported or stored in refrigerators, itsobject being to provide a sack or bag of the class and for the purposeindicated, which shall he more economical in material and cost ofmanufacture than those hitherto made, and which, moreover, when used forenveloping the hind quarters, shall avoid the necessity of laying thefabric over the kidneys, which, in all other methods of enveloping hindquarters, has caused more or less tendency to decay, mustiness, and lossof flavor in the kidneys, which, from their highly-organized organiccharacter, are, more than other portions of the beef, liable todecomposition under any unfavorable circumstances.

Figures 1 and 2 are side views of a bag made according to my invention,representing the opposite sides thereof; and Fig. 3 is a view of theblank or piece of hurlap or other fabric from which the bag is made.

The blank, it will he seen by reference to Fig. 3, is nearly square,there being, however,

one corner cut oli', as represented, as from ato b in said figure. Theblank is then folded in the straight lines indicated by the dotted linesa b' c d', thereby bringing the opposite edges of the two ends incontact with each other, as shown, as from c to d, and also bringing theend c j" in contact with the edge e f, the edges from a, to b beingfolded upon themselves. Seams are then run from c to d, thence from d tog, and thence from g to c. This done, there is provided a bag in whichthe bottom and top will he at an angle to the sides, thereby bringingthe cloth, with reference to said sides, as yit might be termed, on

the bias, and, of course, rendering the cloth more elastic, eitheracross the bag or lengthwise in the same, than if the Warp and weft ranparallel, respectively, with the top and sides of the bag. This shape ofthe bag, moreover, causes it to conform to the general shape of thequarter of beef, so that when the latter is inserted the bag is readilystretched, caused to tit snugly upon its surface, and with its mouthreadily and conveniently tied snugly around the projecting shank of thequarter of heef. Furthermore, the removal of the corner a b from theblank from which the bag is made causes the proper form to he given tothe extremity of the bottom of the bag, which, when a hind quarter ofbeef is inserted in the latter, comes upon that portion of the quarterwhere the kidneys are vsituate, this construction of the just-mentionedportion of the bag, it being observed, avoiding any necessity of foldingthe burlaps or material of which the bag is made upon itself, whichfolding or applying of several layers `of burlaps upon the kidneys hasbeen a prolific source of damage to the beef in all of the methodsheretofore employed for enveloping the heef in hurlaps or like material.

It should also be hornein mind that the shape of the blank hereinheforedescribed enables the bag to be made of the least possible quantity ofmaterial and with the least possible length of seam, thereby diminishingthe cost of the bag about one-third as compared with those hitherto madefor the same purpose.

What I claim as my invention is- The herein-described bag for envelopingbeef-quarters, formed of the blank, having its corner shaped asdescribed, and folded upon itself to bring the top and bottom of the bagat an angle to the sides, with the seam crossing the same, as described,all as and for the purpose herein set forth.

EZEKIEL S. HALS'IED. Witnesses:

EDWARD HOLLY, A. WELLS, Jr.

